Bike Decorating Contest & Uniontown Parade
Bike Decorating Contest – The judging and line up starts Saturday at 2:00 on Hill St between Grovemont and Sweitzer. Please have any bicycle entrant dropped off at Grovemont and Hill St. All the bicycle entrants just show up they do not need to pre-register.
New Chief of the Uniontown Police Department Hired
Township trustees on Monday appointed Capt. Jack Coontz to be the new chief of the Uniontown Police Department.
Coontz, a 26-year veteran of the department, had been in charge of the department following the retirement of former chief Don Hensley last month.
Trustees announced Coontz’s selection as chief after a 32-minute executive session. The appointment is effective [...]
4-year-old Blake Davis (Son of Jessie Davis) has no parents, but he has Jenn a former Uniontown resident
Over the past 18 months, Jenn Snyder has established a college fund, collected furniture – and even helped get a home – for the family of 4-year-old Blake Davis.
Snyder didn’t even know Blake until she saw him on television in June 2007.
The Ohio boy’s missing mother had just been found dead. The prime suspect was [...]
Plane Crashes in Uniontown
CantonRep.com staff report
LAKE TWP. —The pilot of a single-engine airplane died when he crashed Friday evening, narrowly missing a vacant house on Charolais Street NW in a residential neighborhood.
Dead is Michael L. Connell, 45, of Akron, according to Lt. Tony Bradshaw of the Ohio Highway Patrol. No one was injured.
“The plane was just torn apart,” [...]
Uniontown Company to Open $100M bleach plant in Pittsburg
A $100 million bleach manufacturing plant will be built and operated by K2 Pure Solutions at Dow Chemical Co.’s Pittsburg site.
K2 will build and operate the plant on 15 acres leased from Dow on its 513-acre east Contra Costa County site. Dow will supply raw materials.
The new plant will sell bleach mainly to municipal water [...]
